Bridge Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. A C17 Mansion. 7 related planning applications.

Bridge Place

WRENN ID
secret-porch-flax
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Type
Mansion
Address
Bridge Place, Bourne Park Road, CT4 5LF
OS grid reference
TR 181 539
Coordinates
51.24263, 1.1237
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Place is an L-shaped building that is the only remaining part of a large mansion built by Sir Arnold Braems in the late 17th century. The rest of the mansion was demolished by John Taylor of Bifrons, Patrixbourne, between 1704 and 1729. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring brick pilasters beside each window bay, a bracketed wooden eaves cornice, and a brick stringcourse. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof.

The north or entrance front has two and a half storeys and includes two hipped dormers. There is a modern porch and five irregularly placed windows, mostly casements with wooden mullions and transoms, some with small square leaded panes, along with two hung sash windows with glazing bars. Some windows at the east end are dummies, likely blocked when sash windows were added to the east front. The modern porch features a rusticated stone doorway with a keystone.

The east front has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with four windows and two hipped dormers. The windows here have glazing bars and hung sashes. Inside, there are unusual carved cornices in two rooms and two painted stone fireplaces.

Local climate

Bridge Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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